E-Cigarettes were introduced originally as a way to help smokers be relieved from their harmful dirty habits. These electronic cigarettes (also called e-cigarettes or electronic nicotine delivery systems) are battery-operated devices designed to deliver nicotine with flavorings and other chemicals to users in vapor instead of smoke (_). They were displayed as non-toxic and "safe" when compared to their tar-filled counterparts. However, new evidence shows that, shockingly (you might want to sit down, kids), vaping really isn't good for you. This article is heavily aimed at you, twelve-year-old who was vaping inside of the Turlock Starbucks. Evidence shows that not only does vaping harm genes associated with the body’s ability to fight infections, vaping suppresses them more than your average cigarettes does. So vaping may not eliminate risks associated with conventional smoking - and it actually is adding new ones. A study in tracking the activity of genes in mice’s frontal cortex, a brain region associated with planning and integrating the senses to understand the environment, showed that males exposed to nicotine-laced vapors showed no gene-activity changes, and among females, vapors laced with nicotine appeared to alter the activity levels of 148 genes in the brain’s frontal cortex. But among rodents exposed to nicotine-free vapors, a whopping 830 or more genes in the frontal cortex showed substantially altered activity — either much higher or lower than in unexposed mice (here, both males and females were about equally affected). So while vaping may be better for your lungs and the air around you, it certainly does negatively affect your ability to function normally, and may even lead to alterations in mental health along with hyperactivity. And regarding lung health: exposing mice to e-cig vapors increased their plaque buildup, which is a sign of emerging atherosclerosis, reported Daniel Conklin of the University of Louisville in Kentucky. Cigarette smoke did too. In both cases, he noted, it appeared that toxic aldehydes, such as acrolein, formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, were contributors. And so, it appears electronic cigarette vapors “could adversely impact the cardiovascular health of users".
Who knew!
Next thing you know, we'll be learning that vaping causes global warming levels to skyrocket (which would actually help to explain the high temperatures of 2016). The moral of the story? Stop vaping. It doesn't make you look edgy - it makes you look a fool.
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Who knew!
Next thing you know, we'll be learning that vaping causes global warming levels to skyrocket (which would actually help to explain the high temperatures of 2016). The moral of the story? Stop vaping. It doesn't make you look edgy - it makes you look a fool.
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